Big River Blues

Delmore Brothers: Big River Blues



It is related that Sakyamuni
[the historical Buddha]
once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.
--Peter Matthiessen
(from The Snow Leopard)

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Comanche Point
Susan Alzner: "Rafting Hermit Rapid"
Granite Rapid
Delmore Brothers: "I've Got the Big River Blues" (1933)
Zoroaster Temple